2012-03-20 15:56:26 // Design Daily Team
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The Pompidou Centre in Paris has picked up three large works from David Trubridge's Icarus installation for its permanent collection – a major coup for one of our very own designers.
2012-03-09 14:49:32 // Design Daily Team
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We rather like these solid oak Faber stools – they're elegant, simple and most definitely something we could see finding a place at home or being used in a favourite funky cafe.
2012-02-01 13:44:57 // Design Daily Team
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Versatility, when it comes to furniture, is a good thing by most standards. And the REK coffee table definitely qualifies, with its sleek expandable design.
2011-08-17 11:45:20 // Design Daily Team
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Sam Haughton and David Trubridge are two big names in New Zealand furniture that lend themselves to excellence in design. But the once-robust New Zealand furniture industry has as of late struggled against cheaper imported rivals. Now it’s hoped a new initiative by FITEC, the national forest and wood industry training organisation, will change all that. The organisation has launched its ‘Master Seal’ seal of quality that promotes trained staff who produce well-made furniture.
2011-05-19 08:30:00 // Design Daily Team
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Take one giant log, insert a flying axe and what do you get? This very cool bench courtesy of David Long and Antoine Morris. The duo approached the concept of this one-off piece by setting up a series of parameters that would define the final product without them relying on drawings or a concrete final image.
2011-05-09 13:30:07 // Design Daily Team
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As part of the inaugural 2011 Formica Formations competition, experienced and emerging designers in New Zealand are getting set to pit their design talents against 10 of the world’s best architects. And they’ll be doing so under the watchful eyes of local designer David Trubridge, and Formica’ s U.S. Vice President of Design Renée Hytry Derrington, who have both been named as two of the judges for the competition.
2011-03-14 15:54:47 // Design Daily Team
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Designers with an eye for creating sculptural furniture are being invited to take part in a new design competition that encourages both experienced and emerging designers to pit their talents against 10 of the world’s best architects.
2011-02-23 13:06:39 // Sam Eichblatt
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Nathan Goldsworthy’s self-assembled furniture is the first step in the designer’s move offshore
2010-11-24 15:10:27 // Design Daily Team
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Here’s a thrifty way to fit out an office. But thrifty as it may be, it’s also rather funky. Using wooden pallets, Dutch architectural firm Most Architecture have created this novel temporary office space for an Amsterdam advertising company.
2010-10-15 16:23:30 // Design Daily Team
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If you’re not fond of the 111 Navy Chair featured in the previous story, perhaps sitting on a 3-D scribble is more your style? The C-Bench and C-Stone, by Belgian designer Peter Donders, were created by twisting a single string of carbon fibre around a form that was then removed. The result is a light, distinctive—yet very strong (carbon fiber is used to produce Formula One race cars)—structure that brings scribbles into 3-D reality.
2010-10-15 15:51:10 // Design Daily Team
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If you don’t like to drink Coke, perhaps you’d like to sit on it instead—well, sit on the bottle at least. Never slowing down in its bid to brand the world, the Coca Cola Company has inched its way into the furniture market, playing the good corporate citizen with these recycled chairs
2010-10-13 13:27:56 // Vicki Holder
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It’s been a long time coming, but Backhouse Design has finally received several new products showcased by Kartell at the Milan Fair in April. Michelle Backhouse explains Kartell is one of the few large Italian furniture companies that’s still family owned after 60 years in business, which ensures they can respond to market demand and remain at the cutting edge of design.
2010-09-07 11:00:45 // Vicki Holder
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While the cool winter winds haven’t quite abated, summer is almost on our doorstep. And as the season marches on, some fresh, new looks are about to invade the design stores. Valeria Carbanaro-Laws of Studio Italia in Auckland is gearing up for a shipment of the latest outdoor furniture to arrive in October.
2010-08-19 09:37:18 // Design Daily Team
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Why lie on a bed of nails when you can sit on a bench of pencils? The aptly named Pencil Bench is the award-winning work of UK design company Boex 3D Creative Solutions. The inspiration for the bench stemmed from an office conversation in which the designers asked themselves whether an everyday office object could be incorporated into a piece of furniture
2010-07-23 11:00:46 // Design Daily Team
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It almost looks to bright to sit on, but we love this chair by London-based design studio Kiwi & Pom
2010-07-20 10:43:03 // Design Daily Team
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Described as “an enchanted forest of trees that light up at night”, we love these softly shaped and curvaceous limited edition chairs and coffee tables by Giancarlo Zema. The piece are made from wood and resin strip and illuminated with integrated LED light.
2010-07-13 14:59:57 // Vicki Holder
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Taking a well-deserved break with his family in Hawkes Bay, a slightly weary furniture designer David Moreland reflects on surviving in the design game.
2010-07-12 10:03:39 // Sam Eichblatt
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Meet German designer Katrin Sonnleitner, soon to visit New Zealand for Semi-Permanent 2010.
2010-07-08 14:08:10 // Design Daily Team
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Review: 'Eco House Book' explores numerous practical and creative ways to make your home more sustainable, but not at the expense of style.
2010-07-07 10:19:56 // Design Daily Team
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Here's something for the uber-cool suburban kids. We love these curvaceous and modern interpretations of cots and beds by UrbanBaby. Better yet, they're made from recyclable and renewable materials.
2010-07-05 14:23:31 // Vicki Holder
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Some exciting new designer products have recently landed at the ECC Lighting & Furniture showrooms in both Auckland and Wellington. Here are a couple of our favourites....
2010-07-02 10:47:13 // Design Daily Team
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We love thecoolist for pointing us to this Kiwi&Pom-designed chair
Commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine in late 2009, the multi-coloured chair features 200 metres of electroluminescent wire and a pulse setting for the all-important disco vérité experience.
2010-06-30 17:00:02 // Deirdre Robert
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Last year Design Quarterly named him one the Top Ten Australian and New Zealand Designers. His creative furniture design is known to push the boundaries between interior design, installation art, and exhibition design. We delve into the creative depths of Tim Wigmore’s mind and find out what makes him tick.
2010-06-29 11:21:33
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Despite being covered in enough paua to blend in seamlessly at the old Paua shell house, Samwoong Lee's Octopus chair is really quite elegant.
2010-06-28 12:26:44 // Vicki Holder
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Like diving through a waterline of clear glass into the organically seductive structural elements of a yacht, Rose & Heather’s Bailey table has nothing to hide.
